One should read Borges more.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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